New Build

Slower builds and cost blowouts will be the biggest challenges of 2024 for the construction sector, says Hutchinson Builders director Jack Hutchinson, as data shows a pick-up in the amount of work ahead.

Governments and housing authorities must take into account the effect of their actions on home building, and failing to do so will be costly for all.

The Housing Industry Association’s outlook for the next few years paints a bleak picture for the Sydney and Melbourne home building market, with little left in construction pipelines.

Lack of connectivity in new housing estates on the outskirts of capital cities is causing a liveability problem that is affecting younger Australians.

The built-to-rent sector is seeing signs of consolidation as big platforms are in play.

Australia’s mum and debt investors will be crucial in any solution to the nation’s home rental crisis as governments and developers chase ways of breaking the supply logjam.

The Queensland government’s draft housing plan to deliver almost 900,000 new homes by 2040 will not be enough homes to meet the population gains, warns the Housing Industry Association.

After several high-profile builder collapses, private Queensland developers are competing with governments for skilled builders as the state’s Olympic and apartment boom takes off.

Big players Sentinel and Ashe Morgan are capitalising on Melbourne’s status as the country’s top build-to-rent market.